A Farewell to Cowards

 

A Farewell to Cowards

 

Capitulation?

No.

No, it is an abandonment.

It is an abdication.

It is cowardice.

It is a desertion.

We have been left to jackals and slavers,

We have been allowed to be absorbed

Into a diseased machine,

We have been fed corruption,

We have been led astray

And face the precipice.

Those charged with guardianship

Have quit their posts,

And have yielded to exploitation

And extortion.

This is the worst malfeasance,

An insufferable discard of responsibility,

A surrender of morals and duty,

A defeat through payola.

Such jobbery sickens me.

Fearful of their survival,

They have chosen poison.

They will find themselves eating it daily.

They will choke on their lack of vision,

Their numbers dwindle as their venality grows,

Their desperation as painful as the bruising of their knees,

Let their long extinction event,

Bring to them the suffering

They have allowed to be foist on their subscribers.

The Fifth Estate,

Is in a state of disgrace,

Of dishonor,

And has accepted a perversion of its mandate,

In place of commitment and distinction.

A slow suicide,

Is still suicide,

And these will not die well.

Goodbye corporate journalists,

You have failed your task,

Goodbye.

 

Cliff Lake 12/16/2024

Copyright © Clifford Lake 2024

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